The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1928, Page 1

| re THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Weck For a Labor Party Entered as second-class matier at the Post Office at New York. N. Vol. V., No. 280 ‘@ daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association. Inc. 26-28 Union Sq@., New York, N. ¥. NEW YORK, MONDAY, NO TOOHEY FREED |Cvew Saved All IN PITTSBURGH <@<ved, From FRAME-UP CASE > S. ‘Vestris New Attempt to Crush | National Miners Union Fails Lewis Gang Alarmed) (By John S. Morgan, Able Seaman.) | William Dwyer, able seaman, who | was on the Vestris working the 8| | to 12 watch, gives a vivid descrip- tion of his experience during the sinking of the Vestris, in an inter- view at the International Seamen’s Club at 28 South. St. Dwyer strongly resents the lies | published in the capitalist press against the Vestris crew, particu- Militant Union Grows | larly that which said that two life. | boats, loaded with women and chil- Among Workers iran wors ute by the crew hanging cr a |to the davits to go down with the | >| ship. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. Another move in the frantic drive of | the coal barons and the corrupt] Lewis gang to crush the militant | National Miners’ Union was proven in, to be a frame-up plot yesterday|p. m, the forecastle was flooded as when the cases of Pat Toohey, sec-| well as quarters on the port side | retary-treasvrer of the National Min-| amidship. Th ers’ Union, and Dorothy Ros, office | bookkeeper, were dismissed in the} United States District Court here by | ¢¢, Judges Nelson and Vickar. They 1 t had been arrested on charges of|°\” sid found. he ERD Resi ce nt en ‘contempt of court,” and thrown into| #7 10m flooded so ra aon jail in liew of $10,000 bonds. lashed to the stanchions, standing in | In his decision, the judge stated|water up to their chests befove the | that it was obvious the defendants firebox, to lift one man up so he) had no control over the books de-| could get a little coal to the fires. sired by the grand jury, and which bad caused their arrest. Saw Hopelessness Day Before. of about 28 degrees. Dwyer said he went down to the oke-hole to see what was going As an experienced szaman, Dwyer | | knew at that time (the evening of | the day before the S. O. S. was sent out) that there was no chance to Lewis Gang Move. This frame-up move, though con- x templated for a long time, was made | *8Ve the ship. Friday by the coal barons and the| When Dwyer left the bridge, at CANNONITES AT WORKERS FORUM GITLOW SPEECH 2 Discloses Alliance of DeclaresWorkers Must Nicara Group With Eastman, Lore Trot zky Tales Fake Expelled Are Heading for Socialist Party One of the biggest crowds in the history of the Workers School ism, internationally and United States. in the Four hundred were on the stairs for admission. Wolfe’s exposure of the counter-revolution- ary role of the expelled Cannonites was greeted with great applause by the packed hall. Shows Trotsky Degeneration. Wolfe reviewed Trotsky’s degen- eration in the Communist Party of |the Soviet Union, showing how the great difficulties facing the Rus- sian workers in their construction of a Socialist society caused the Trotskyist leftists and the oppor- tunist right wingers to unite in at- tack upon the leadership of the C. WOLFE EXPOSES WAR DANGER IS KEYNOTE OF BEN Be Prepared as Well As Capitalists Speed-up Armaments Imperialists Plot War on Soviet Union before a large audience 's who filled the Irving Speaki of wor! y |forum heard Bertram D, Wolfe, di-| Plaza, Irving Place and Fifteenth He states that the ship’ was tak-|rector of the school and editor of | St., Benjamin Gitlow, member “of ig water all day Sunday and by 5/|the Communist, speak on Trotsky-|the Central Committee of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, denounced States, in common with the other e ship then had a list | present and a couple of hundred | the preparations which the United | others waited in vain in the halls and imperialist powers, is making for a new war. “War with one another, and war against the Soviet Union,” is the object of the militarists of all na- | tionalities,” Gitlow declared, Pointing to the preparations! which the powers are making in an ‘ever increasing speed-up, Gitlow showed that the imperialist slaugh- ter is being brought nearer and nearer with every plate that is | screwed to a battleship. “While the antagonisms between |the governments of ‘the United “comipléte evidence of the terror inte corrupt Lewis machine, which be-|12 ‘midnight, when his watch was trayed the last heroic strike of the} miners in the bituminous fields, and| which has, for a long time, been| alarmed by the growing strength and} influence of the militant National} Miners Union. a The fake charge on which the Lewis betrayal group, in collusion with the courts, tried unsuccessfully to frame Tochey, is that he failed to turn over records of the National] Miners’ Relief for court inspection. Concocted by the same vicious Lewis group which not only failed to aid the strikers when they were beset by hunger and lack of homes and) the freezing winter cold, this at- tempt to railroad Toohey to jail and | smash the union is looked upon as which the formation of the new fighting union has thrown the cor- rupt ranks of the betrayers. | Brutal Police Raids. The entire dirty work of the} frame-up was concocted ten weeks ago, following federal raids on the Workers’ International Relief head-| quarters, when state troopers vic- iously broke into the headquarters and nearly wrecked the offices. Toohey vill go on trial December Je on charges of rioting and inciting | to riot ing from a state police| raid on a miners’ mneeting at Renton, | Pa., on March € On that day troop- ers brole up the meeting and bru- tally beat up Toohey as he was speaking against the sending of ma-| rines by the U. S. government to) Nvaragua for the purpose of sub-| jugating the Nicaraguan revolution- ary workers. MICHIGAN MINERS BITTER AT CUT Demand National Mine | Union Organization | SAGINAW, Mich., (By Mail—De- layed).—As a result of the latest betrayal by the Lewis gang here, whose new agreement has cut the wages of the already-underpaid workers, the miners are demanding} te break with the corrupt crew and form a new branch of the militant) National Miners’ Union here. i The miners of Saginaw, Bay City and Charles are bitter against the! Lewis machine that was responsible) for the wage cut and the worsening | of working conditions. Although open statement of their opinions} against their officials means expul-| sion and loss of work for them,}| many are openly propagating the| formation here of a new local of the National Miners’ Union. The betrayal was arranged at a meeting of District 24 of the U. M. W. of A., where the new agreement culminating the six week strike was voted upon. The new scale provides for a reduction of 19 per cent for loaders and cutters, and a decrease in wages for day men from $7.50 a day to $5.92 and 1-2. The agreement is to continue until April 1, 1930. Vote Framed by Lewis Gang. E. B. Reese, head of the miners’ organization here stated to the capi- talist press that “approximately one- half of the membership voted.” His reasons were that this was due to “inclement weather.” In discussions with many miners your reporter voters voted either straight. labor |survey, did not over the week end, relieved, he saw the chief mate lean- ing on the rail. and crying like a baby, actually shedding tears. Captain Lied. | During Dwyer’s watch he saw the captain once and: asked politely’ if he would abandon the ship. The cap- tain replied that he had sent out en S. O, S. and that the ship was Continued on Page Four MINE TOWN GIVES: FOSTER 42 VOTES: Prove Red Votes Were Thrown Out PITTSBURGH, Pa.. Nov. 25.—) Additional returns of the recent | elections were reported today from Renton, a small mining town, where on March 6, Pat Toohey, secretary- treasurer of the National Miners’ Union, was viciously attacked when state trooners raided a miners’ meet- ing. William Z. Foster and Ben- jamin Gitlow, candidates of the! Workers (Communist) Party, re- ceived 22 “official” votes. Twenty | other Communist votes were found | to have been destroyed by the poli- | ticjans in charge at the polls. Hoover received 37 votes, while Smith got less than ten. | Fifteen miners, all supporters of | the Workers (Communist) Party, | were disfranchised at the polls be- cause they were unable to pay the taxes. On-the eve of the elections, the inside of the mine in this town was completely chalked up with the/| slogan “Vote Communist.” | A letter from A. Jakira, organi-{ zer of the Workers (Communist) Party in the mine districts, reads in part as follows: “We received a letter today from} the Election Bureau in Harrisburg, Pa., upholding our claim that bal-_ lots marked a certain way were) thrown out illegally. Many of the| and for our candidates on the Com- munist ticket, or vice versa. Most of these ballots were thrown out. The state officially informs us that they had no right to discard our ballots marked that way.” Stocks May ‘Boom But | That Don’t Mean Any! Prosperity for Labor) While the bankers, as instanced| tion lies in the fact that an im-@ by the Guaranty Trust Company’s | see any break in the recent wild speculation on the stock exchange “unless something untow@rd happens to check the advance of business,” it is admitted that even from the ca) talist viewpoint of profit conside: tion alone, the textile, coal, shipping and oil industries are “embarrassed,” that there are unsatisfactory condi- tions in agriculture and that still further uncertainty exists because of the money market. Bankers and brokers prophecy that the Christmas buying season will hold up for a while the stock speculation and they even look for a 10,000,000 share da: However, the speculation is an ele- ment of danger to the whole credit structure, The Guarantee Survey says: P. S. U. Their price policy and pea-| States and Great Britain are daily sant policy, he showed, would have | growing greater and making a war led to a rupture of the alliance be-| between the two nations just that tween the workers and peasants,|much more certain, their govern- Continued on Page Four | “It must be remembered that a ilarge volume of resources is stilh be- \ing held in reserve against future 1,800 BANKS BANKRUPT WASHINGTON (By Mail).—In/demands from abroad, which onr ‘the past five years 1,800 American ‘financial leaders have nether the banks have gone bankrupt. ipower nor the right to oppose. and uprisings of the latter. With the utter rout of the Trot- skyists, the main danger in the U. S. S. R. today is the right wing, which is now being exposed. The roots of Trotskyism in the | United States were then explained: the strength of American imperial- ism, the simultaneous growth of reformism and the radicalization of the workers, the great divisions within the working class, leading to pessimism, passivity, cynicism and capitulation by the renegades. He took up the development of the right wing, innii fight again » begi against Lore in 1925 and con- tinuing with that against Eastman, Salutzky, etc., up to thé expulsion |of Cannon and his lesser artillery. Cannonites Not Even Leftest. He summed up the Cannon group as the crassest form of right wing- h the |ments are simultaneously preparing |for war against the Soviet Union,” the speaker declared. He further showed how the in- terests of the governments of the United States and Great Britain are conflicting in every section of the world as they strike against one an- other for markets for their manu- factures and their capital and for sources of-raw material. Hoover’s imperial invasion of the Latin American continent, executed Hthe imperialism of the perialism. pared, so that there might not be another 1914. “It is the duty of the working class to prepare against | While Moncada, who sold out murderer of Nicaraguan work TORTURE PORTE guan Workers, Peasants, Won’t Welcome se the Nicaraguan workers by becoming SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ew York, by R IN AR the tool of Wall Street, and Diaz, rs, welcome the agent of Wall Street Herbert Hoover, the workers and peasants, who are fighting against their enslavement by American imperialists, will continue the struggle un- der their leader Augr to Sandino. (at left). MARINES REVEAL THE _ APPEAL RALLIES STRENGTH OF SANDINO HOOVER SHIP IN ~ STORM BUT SAFE Everything Different Than on Vestris Americ WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 5. on a gigantic scale, and Coolidge’s|—Radio disnatches from the battle- writers against re’ je Armistice Day speech, he charac-|ship Maryland, carrving Herbert “.. .Nicaragua, Ajpri terized alike as challenges flung by | Hoover on his imperialist mission to|Dear D. . . . n United/ Latin America, state ‘that his trip” States into the face of British im-|will be delayed 24 hours at all points jon account of a 70 mile gale which He urged the workers to be pre-|the battleship faced all day Satur- day. “The dreadnought.” says the dis- patch, “is meeting the onslaught of ism, with never a leftist among | the coming capitalist war,” he said,|wind and waves in magnificent them. The “Militant,” Cannon’s | “to prepare to turn the war of the | fashion.” This shows that while new paper, was their method of ap- imperialists into a war for the lib- | Hoover’s Department of Commerce pealing to the Party Convention—a eration of the international work- inspection service allowed the un- method of poisonous attack against the entire revolutionary movement of the world, though centering its vituperation against the American Party. He denounced their fake appeal to save Radek, in Siberia, and Trotsky, in Turkestan, from a mysterious at- tack of malaria, an appeal that was a veiled call to battle against the whole Communist International. They were making this attack at a time when the war danger was the Yoremost one, and it meant serving as the Agitprop Department of the capitalists in their preparations for war on the U. S. S. R.—preparations!ers (Communist) Party considered | \ing class.” | WORKERS PARTY REMOVES WRITER | | Right Wing Danger Seen in Article | At a meeting held on Nov. 4 | the Political Committee of the Work seaworthy Vestris to go to its doom with passengers and crew in a small storm, Hoover himself taking no chances on such fate by sailing on a well-corditioned dreadnought of the U.S. Navy. The disnatches tell how some waves, breaking high, threw some |water through the open port holes of Hoover's palatial quarters, but ‘the portholes were closed, making the quarters watertight.” It was quite different on the Vestris, where the portholes and loading doors were in such rotten condition they could not be closed and water poured in. Hoover has a large reception room to drown the Soviet Union in blcod.|and acted upon the question of an.@ great sleeping room, a_ private U. S. IN FAKE PEACE GESTURE WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25. —A very clever move in the war) preparations now being speeded up is the proposal, informally an- nounced, that the state department would “sound out” the leading pow- ers signatory to the world court with a view, pretendedly, of their accepting the United States adher- ence to the court regardless of the reservations to such an adherence laid down three years ago by the senate. The reas6n this is a war prepara- perialist nation, which demands of its workers that they die willingly for imperialist interests, must de- Continued on Page Two —? article which had appeared in the bath besides a large office, while his issue of the Daily Worker, central Wife also has similar commodious That Hoover's cancellation of a trip inland in Nicaragua is owing to the strength of the revolutionary nationalist army under General San- dino, and other startling information concerning the ambushes set by U. S. Marines for Sandino sympa- thizers, and their massacre, together with the desire of some marines to escape from the imperialist dirty work, is shown by the following let- ters from marines, which are given with certain deletions to protect the prisa 28, 1928. If Marines Leave Sandino Wins.” “We were at . one month and as soon as we got to... we were sent out here... and from what I hear we will be here for quite a while yet. I have been talking to a big lumber man down here and he says Sandino has over 4,000 men and most of the men along Wanghs and Waspook rivers belong to his army and most of the men who work for Americans are his men. There one thing certain, if the marin ever leave Nicaragua Sandino will clean this country out. “If you think you can get me out, try, because I know what it means to work, and I am willing to tackle anything and stick to it... .” Another letter says in part: “Camp. ... September 9, Nicaragua, Dear . . . | Battle Four and a Half Hours. “The little trouble I wrote you about -was a battle we had with Juron, Sandino’s right hand man. Juron is also at the head of San- dino’s cavalry. We met him on the Coco river about 60 miles from Continued on Page Four organ of the party, of the same day, under the title, “Plan to Insure Boss Prosperity.” The article dealt, in a way impermissible for a revolution- ary working class paper, with the subject of the proposed Hoover plan w “stabilizing prosperity” with a $3,000,000,000 fund. Two motions passed by the Politi- cal Committee were ordered publish- ed in the Daily Worker, as foilovs: Motion by Minor: “The political committee takes note of the article on page one of the Daily Worker, November 23, signed by Comrade Sherman, which is opposed to the views of .the Central Executive Committee. The article is opportunistic, anti- Marxian and evidence of right wing and social democratic illu- sions. “The Political Committee takes | note of the fact that the article Continued on Page Two sleeping rooms, reception room and |private bath. All palatially furn- lished, and quite in contrast with the ‘filthy, crowded quarters of the Negro workers of the Vestris who \slaved in the hell of the stokehole |thru trovic heat year after year. The capitalist ~eporters are given space formerly used by the junior officers, but it is to be noted that no Latin American journalists are permitted. They might hear some- | thing and save it up for future ex- |pbsure of American imperialism. Radio notification was sent today to San Salvador that Hoover will not visit that country. His first port of call is scheduled to be Ama- pala, Hondura: ‘OR WOMEN BOSTON, Nov. 25.—The Women’s Bureau of the United States depart- ment of labor has ruled that the 5: hour week for women mackerel can- ners in Massachusetts is legal. 52-HOUR W CLOAK WORKERS IN MANY RALLIES Workers in the ladies’ garment manufacturing indus will have the opportunity to discuss the re- cently exposed plot of the scab union officialdom to begin a new \attack against the fast growing left wing union, at the membership meetings of many of their locals, which are scheduled for the begin- ning of the week. Although originally called for the purpose of nominating delegates to the coming convention of the left wing cloak and dressmakers union, the opportune disclosure of the plan lof the Schessinger-Forward clique | Continued on Page Two SOVIET GOVERNMENT Restrict Sale of Rum; Carry on Campaign by Posters and by Moving Pictures. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. Nov. 25|the interior of the happy home of | of booze. (FP).—For the past year the All- Union Communist Party, the Soviet trade unions, and the cooperatives have been waging a vigorous educa- tional campaign against alcoholism. The newspapers, cinemas, libraries and the 46,000 cultural clubs througout the Soviet Union, as well as the Red Army recreation centers, all united in fighting not ’ One of the largest co- CURBS SPREAD OF LIQUOR ‘of vodka so that it is now a tame|™ SILK WORKERS Strike Committee Calls (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 25.—In an appeal distributed broadcast among the membership. of the As- sociated Silk Workers Union, “the left wing ke committee called upon the entire membership to come to the general membership meeting tomorrow—Monday night, in the West Side High School to repudiate ythessteikebreaking dissolution orders of the officials, support the left wing leadership and thus save the union from destruction by the clique now in control. Work Against Right Wing. Calling the attention of the mem- bers to the wage-cuts made in silk factories immediately after the fake settlements were made to the fact that the leaders of the union have been and are leading the strike to a ruinous conclusion, and to the at- tempts to oust from responsible work the most devoted unionists be- cause they are militants, the appeal |. of the strike committee warns the workers that unless drastic action is taken by them immediately the or- ganization will be completely de- | stroyed. A large section of the appeal speaks directly to the ribbon and hat-band workers who have not been on strike and who are relied upon by the reactionary officialdom to cutvote the left wing at the mem- bership meeting. The appeal, in addressing these workers, str oS strongly the fact that, if the right wing in the union succeeds in oust- ing the left wingers and thereby losing the strike, the whole union— all sections of it—will go under. The left wing, therefore, appeals to these workers to back the broad silk workers, who are overwhelmingly behind the left wing, condemn the Joint Board for dissolving the left wing strike committee in the midst of a strike. and oust the union- wrecking officials. While active in rallying the mem- |bership for the general member meeting, the strike committee has, in the last few days, given further proof of the confidence the workers place in them. This was demon- strated by the separate meetings of language sections. Six highly suc- cessful language meetings have been Continued on Page Three “Jim-Crow” ‘Theatre in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (By Mail). The Rexy Theatre, 8th and South Sts., has established a “Jim-Crow” pol Negroes are not permitted to sit in the orchestra. The theatre, recently built by the Stanley Thea- tre Corporation, is located in a sec- tion in which both Negroes and hites reside, the population com- prising many creeds and races. Agent of Wall Street the non-drinking worker alongside| operatives in the Moscow district, that of the home of the miserable! with hundreds of shops throughout drunken worker. The. Soviet gov-|the most thickly populated section ernment moving picture trust, Sov-|of the city, has annqanced that no kino, has just produced a rousing alcoholic liquors of any kind will movie called Alcohol which outdoes be sold at any of its grocery stores a wild west film for thrills, to say|and that it will not advertise the nothing of its anti-booze propa- sale of alcoholic drinks in any of secu ane | No objection was voiced on the One of the trade union leaders/ opening night, but the Negro resi- {has stated that the Russian work-|dents are contemplating concerted lers would have complete prohibition action against the theatre owners. |in 100 or 150 years, not by law but| acini antanias b a |by personal choice, since they no| LONDON BUS DRIVERS STRIKE | longer would want to resort to drink! LONDON, Nov. 25.—Bus drivers ganda. | After a year of education, the big cooperatives who handle-—-with the | government - stores—over 80 per} f yum but also wine and beer. ‘cent of all retail trade—have just | ed hours each day, the cooperatives “sociability” would seem stupid and, Some of the posters used depict|taken active steps to curb the salejare reducing the alcoholic content| degrading, its papers or magazines. more, while restricting the sale of °'Y | wines and liquors “spirit” store, open only for limit- and drabness of this life into. tasy, and would have so many other | social pleasures that drinking for Further-|i" order to escape from the drudg- and conductors in one of the gar- ages of the London General Omni- to a central|#" unreal world of alcoholic fan-|bus Co. recently struck to protest the speed-up system. We demand abolition of the right of © on by tandiords against wage eurning tenanta, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents WEAK AFTER HIS PRISON BEATING, HE ASKS FOR AID Dungeon Czars Stop Mail From Victim’s Attorneys ‘ize Had Quit Boss Army MY JAIL; :. DEFENSE IN FEAR FOR HIS LIFE I. L. D. Representative © to Watch Over Him John Porter, a leader of the great New tile strike, who is now serving a Fort n for refusing to serve liauy longer as a soldier in the army of American capitalism, is | tortured by his jailers and stands in real danger of being killed, writes Bedford t | Caroline A. Lowe, Kansas City at- torney, in a letter to the Interna- | tional Labor Defense. | The letter was sent by Attorney |Lowe after she in compelling the the Leavenworth army disciplinary bar- racks to permit her to see Porter in regards to his legal defense. AN mail from the Defense Committee or his attorneys has been confis- cated by the prison authorities, Porter declared to the attorney. Try To Stop Mouth. In an attempt to intimidate him and prevent him from telling of his sufferings and maltreatment, the prison officials after seeing that they could not prevent the attorney from speaking to Porter personally, insisted that the interview must place under the eye of Major , chief jailer there. spite the ‘presence of Berry, Porter told of how the army au- thorities try to make shim. believe himself isolated~bygwi mail from his attorneys; and also told in face of Berry of his being systematically tortured. ‘aroline Lowe, in the letter to the I. L. D., quotes Porter as daring to say in front of the prison official, “You tell the committee at home that I must have protection; that my condition here is not® at all Continued on Page Five FRANCE, BRITAIN IN AJOINT NOTE Bulgar Peasants Are Near Outbreak : VIENNA, Austria, Nov. 25.—The appeal of foreign minister Buroff of Bulgaria for American interference in the Bulgarian situation today, elicited joint interference on the part of the French and British gov- ernments. and gave another example of their policy of collaboration jn in- ternational affairs. The joint de- mand of the two governments re- quires that the fighting in Bulgaria be stooped immediately. They state that it menaces not only internal peace, but the entire peace of Eur- ope. The last proposition is ex- tremely significant in view of the re- quest for American intervention. Foreign minister Buroff today virtually admitted what has been ap- parent from the beginning of the struggle that the government troops were unable to cope with the Mace- donian forces under Ivan Michailoff. He explained the inactivity of the state forces by stating that the goy- ernment was anxious to give Michailoff a last chance to sur- vender before the army marches against Petrich the Macedonian stronghold. The government today issued an ultimatum whose absurdity is best exemplified by the Macedonian’s re- ply, demanding that Michailoff eéase his warfare. : Michailoff replied that “any gov- ernment official who signs a decree against me signs his own death warrant.” Foreign Minister Buroff recently stated that the government fears an outbreak among the peasants who are overburdened with debts and taxes, the heritage of the war. 'Bedacht Will Address Functionaries Meeting Max Bedacht, secretary. of the Agit-prop department of the Work- ers (Communist) Party will address a functionaries conference of Section 2 at 6 p. m., Tuesday, at 101 W. 27th Bedacht will speak to the confer- ence on Trotskyism and the danger, + i} ‘ Leavenworth + being - holding the>+